Man held in mutilated body case

Monday 07th April, 03:42 PM JST

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eiver at 04:10 PM JST - 7th April

what? just 3yrs and 6 months for a brutally committed murder?! japan's judicial system is really a JOKE.(and obviously racially biased)
jerseyboy at 04:14 PM JST - 7th April

romulus3 -- Completely agree. Guy chops up someone, and only gets three and 1/2 years. Makes one wonder what the sentence would have been if the roles were reversed -- a guy from the Philippines chopping up a Japanese woman? THEN there would be outrage Voxman. And, as a resident of Minato-ku, I won't be using any coin lockers until they find that head.
cupidstunt at 04:18 PM JST - 7th April

He probably apologised last time. I hope they wire the b**stard properly this time. Such a waste of life for this poor young lady.
romulus3 at 04:32 PM JST - 7th April

jersey, the Philippian man would have been hang until dead, dead, dead. Thats what would have happened.
Beelzebub at 04:39 PM JST - 7th April

"was held on suspicion of damaging the body of the woman,"

That sounds peculiar. The Mainichi article used the word "desecration," even worse.

I think the correct legal term is mutilation.
terebiko at 04:59 PM JST - 7th April

Sounds like he wasn't tried for murder in the previous case. According to the article he was prosecuted for mutilating and abandoning a body. Must not have had enough evidence to prove he committed the murder.

Hope they put him away for life this time, but I can't help thinking they may not be able to find enough evidence to convict him of murder this time either.
bigeyes at 05:29 PM JST - 7th April

That killer must be given a death sentence..the japanese judicial system is really unfair ,i agree with you eiver...
GrouchyGaijin at 05:35 PM JST - 7th April

"Nozaki, who in 2000 was arrested and later sentenced to three years and six months for mutilating and abandoning the body of another Filipina," is living proof that a gaijin is not a person in Japan, only disposable property. So much for having signed the UN Declaration on Human Rights, and hopefully another nail in the coffin of Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the UNSC.

"All people are equal, but Japanese are more equal than others." to paraphrase George Orwell.
fireant at 08:36 PM JST - 7th April

Here's more, with photos of the poor woman. http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=4212

I hope the judge in Nozaki's next murder trial has more cojones than the last one. Of course, as cupidstunt wrote, he probably apologized profusely last time and that convinced the previous idiotic judge that he was 'sincere'. Personally, I hope Nozaki gets life.
Dog at 05:07 AM JST - 8th April

You really have got to wonder how many foreign women really go 'missing' every year at the hands of these otaku types? It would seem that Ichihashi and Obaras' great mistake was in killing women of the wrong ethnic persuassion. Mark my words, this one has all the signs of a serial offender and it wouldn't surprise me if he confesses up to a few other 'accidents', now that he definitely is gonna be charged with murder. Obara, pre-Lucy Blackman, is written all over this one.
taj at 10:12 AM JST - 8th April

JT left out the reason for the short sentence last time. It was included in the newspaper.

There was no evidence last time that he had murdered anyone and he was not convicted of murder. The best the prosecutors could get, was a conviction of mutilating and abandoning a body.

Now that he has a criminal record, his sentence will increase, even if, once again, he claims the woman killed herself and he was just trying to get out of funerary costs. I do hope they come up with the goods on him this time, though.
treebeard at 01:50 PM JST - 8th April

another "news" site described "a dispute over rent" as the reason for the murder....

better make that deposit soon....
northlondon at 02:39 PM JST - 8th April

So, if I am caught chopping up a leg or two, and maybe some burying of head parts, then that is no evidence that I mudered whoever that person used to be ? With no other suspect and no evidence that somebody else employed me to do the chopping-up and abandoning part or that I purchased the body to do whatever it was I wanted to do, that really is not enough evidence ? Are they serious ?
dennis0bauer at 03:21 PM JST - 8th April

nope northlondon you are gajin, gajin are guilty. this is a japanese man so it is different. and a filipina woman is just a body so it seems so his new sentence will also be lenient. i think.
HoDeDo at 04:10 PM JST - 8th April

don't know about you guys, but back in the states, if you are "illegally disposing of a corpse", the cops are more than likely going to be asking lot's of questions. Namely, like how you got the corpse in the first place. Corpses don't really grow on trees you know, and I know most people would call the cops first. Most wouldn't find a corpse laying around and think "sweet, something to mutilate and dispose of elswhere!". Seems like no real effort was made to try or convict this guy of the first murder. Well he's busted now! Might even get 4 years this time. Mind numbing. Japanese white-washing of crimes by Japanese against foreigners is appalling, and the lack of effort in solving or prosecuting any of these cases is even more disturbing, just ask that poor British girl's family. Japanese media and Govt. attitudes towards other asian nationalities goes way beyong nationalism and slides well toward that certain R word.